Hand-stamp



` To all whom tim/ay concern.:

UNITED STATES PATENT OEFiCE.

CHARLES H. BURGESS, OF EUREKA, MAINE.

HAN D-STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,865, dated November 14, 1893. u Application led March 27,1893- Serial No. 467,850. (No model.) A

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BURGEss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eureka, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine,have invented a new and useful Handtamp, of which the following is a specificalon.

This invention relates to hand-stamps, and has for its object to provide simple and convenient means forexpelling a portion of the die or type to enable a convenient and ready manipulation and setting of the same, or the Substitution of one part for another.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of the parts thereof as will be herei' inafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hand-stamp embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the liner-0c, Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a section on the line y-y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the expelling pin and the spring surrounding the same.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several gures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a handle, having a head 2 at the lower end thereof with a die or type socket 3 therein to receive the die or type 4, and extending diagonally downwardly from the up-A per termination of the said head 2 inwardly to or about the center of the upper' termination of the die or type socket 3 is an opening 5, invwhich is movably seated an expelling pin or post 6, surrounded, in part, by a coiled spring 7, that operates to hold the said pin or post in anormal elevated position. The opening 5 is of such shape throughout its length as to conform to the shape and permit the movement of the said pin or post 6, and the u pper part of said pin or post is enlarged as at 8, and normally projects above the upper termination of the saidopening 5, for convenient engagement by the finger or hand of the operator. The spring 7 is coiled around the expelling pin or post, and is concealed within the head 2, and its lower end bears against a shoulder 9 of the opening 5, while the upper end of said coiled spring engages a shouldered part10, of the said pin 6. The said pin or post is again still further reduced in crosssectional extent, as at 11, in order to permit v the same to freely pass through a reduced opening 12 communicating with the upper part of the type orrdie socket in the-head 2, and extending transversely through the lower part of said pin or post is a slot 13, that forms upper and lower shoulders 14. When the pin or post is mounted in the opening 5 va pin or rod 15 is inserted transversely through the said head 2 and passes through the slot 13 to prevent the said pin or post from being with drawn from the opening 5, as an attempt to withdraw the same would bring the lower shoulder14 to bear against the said pin or rod 15, While the upper shoulder 14 will prevent the pin or post 6 from being depressed too far during the operation of expelling the die or type. The lower end of the smallest part of the pin or .post 6 is beveled, as at 16, in order to accommodate the Obliquity of the said pin or post and bear firmly o n the upperinner end of the die or type without injuring the latter or Wearing the same during the expelling operation. It will be observed that the said lower beveled end 16 of the pin or post 6 is arranged to engage the upper end of the middle or center type or die, and to expel the same a sufficient distance to permit it to be readily grasped by the lingers, or by a suitable mechanical device, and withdrawn. This, of course, leaves a vacant space in the center, and theother type or die can be drawn readily into said space and thereby loosen it for withdrawal, or a space provided on each side of the same .to permit the insertion of a grasping mechanical device, and by this arrangement a simple and convenient means of setting or withdrawing the die or type, or rearranging the same, results.

The device is especiallyintended for applying postmarks, but it will be understood that it may be employed equally well for any other purpose. It will be understood that the device may be operated to expel one or more dies or type from the socket and that the said die or type that is expelled need not necessarily be t-he central one, and it maybe that which is located to one side or theother of the center either in single or double form. It will also be understood that the improved form of ployed in connect iotrwith all forms ofV stamps.v

where it'may be practicably used,and in com bination with other canceling devices, or post-marking stam ps or apparatus. It will be understood of course that it is necessary to hold thedie or type in permanent position against movement within the-socket of the head when the stamp is being employed for canceling or other purposes, and to accom'- plish this a set-screw 17 extends transversely into the lower part of the head andis arranged to engage the die or typeon one side to permanently or securely hold the said die or type in position in-its socket during the operation of the type. When the expelling pin or'post 6 is'to be operated, the said setscrew will be loosened in order to permit. the said die or' type to be expelled.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the m-ifnord'etails of construction may beresorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is In ahand stamp, the combinationof albandleprovidjed' with a tight soclegand having an opening communicating therewith at 'the center of the upper end thereof and having the outer portion enlarged to form a shoulder, an expellingpin mounted in the openingand having" its lowerend beveled and provided intermediate of its ends with a slot 13 form- 'ingl upper and lower shoulders 14, a spring CHARLES H. BURGESS.

Witnesses:

HALLETT, EDNA A. HoUGHfroN. 

